Housetop

Housetop quilts as teachings of survival, land, warmth, destruction

The weekly broadcast: Footnotes & Headlines, is the connective tissue and on going webbing of my work, is the forecast, the check in, the dispatch, the pulse, the ritual of coming together every week, is grief bubbling big big, is tired words, is an invitation, demand

is named after a book published by Corita Kent, Footnotes & Headlines in 1967, which is a book full of prayers, demands, notations, pages full of brightly colored words bringing us in close, is writing, is spell making

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Footnotes & Headlines is letters becoming poems becoming banners becoming kites.

Image description: A quilt patch made up of a rectangular olive green piece of fabric in the center, on the top and bottom of it are long and short brown and orange rectangle fabric pieces. The outer ring of pieces are made up of an L shaped light blue fabric, a yellow and a black,

A pattern that echoes the bones of a home, our hands, our warmth, our family. Concentric bands, almost like a never ending twirling spiral, that hold the center safe. While also becoming larger in size. A center made up of three pieces of fabric sewn together and then a top and bottom panel added from there and so on. Repetition, repeated growth built on and with all past, present and future layers. A pattern of support, of community, of relating. Getting bigger, together. Stronger with collective arms.